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Standard 4: Human Resource Leadership


Principals will ensure that the school is a professional learning community. Principals will ensure that process and systems are in place which results in recruitment, induction, support, evaluation, development and retention of high performing staff. The principal must engage and empower accomplished teachers in a distributive manner, including support of teachers in day-to-day decisions such as discipline, communication with parents/guardians, and protecting teachers from duties that interfere with teaching, and must practice fair and consistent evaluations of teachers. The principal must engage teachers and other professional staff in conversations plan their career paths and support district succession planning.

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Related Coursework and Training
  • Distinguished Leadership in Practice Assignment: "Maximizing Human Resource and Goal Accomplishment"
  • Weekly Internship Logs & Monthly Reports (tracking of teacher evaluation and support activities)
  • Observations using NC Teacher Evaluation Instrument
  • Clinical Supervision Assignments
  • Crucial Conversations Training

Related Readings
  • Reframing Organizations, Bolman & Deal
  • Revisiting Professional Learning Communities at Work, DeFour, DeFour & Eaker

4a: Professional Development/Learning Communities


The principal ensures that the school is a professional learning community.

Experiences and Artifacts

4b: Recruiting, Hiring, Placing and Mentoring of staff


The school executive establishes processes and systems in order to ensure a high-quality, highperforming staff.

Experiences and Artifacts
  • Co-facilitated numerous teacher interviews for 6th, 7th, and 8th core and elective positions

4c. Teacher and Staff Evaluation


The principal evaluates teachers and other staff in a fair and equitable manner with the focus on improving performance and, thus, student achievement.

Experiences and Artifacts
  • Facilitated several classroom walkthroughs at all grade levels and content areas leaving formal and informal feedback
  • Led and engaged in several observation cycles including the pre-conference, observation, and post-conference